Actress Priyanka Chopra has been nominated by many to take up the ALS ice bucket challenge, but she doesn’t seem to be interested.
The challenge involves dumping buckets of ice water over one’s head to spread awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.
Apart from Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, Robert Pattinson and Nicole Kidman, Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar, Bipasha Basu and Abhishek Bachchan also took up the challenge.
But Chopra is not joining the league.
“Thank u for all the nominations but...,” she tweeted, and posting a link of an Australian newsreader who also rejected a nomination and who added that focus should be on “spreading the love around to other deserving causes like cancer and fresh water charities, and not wasting so much ice”.
Earlier, Sonam Kapoor had refused to take up the challenge after being nominated by Fukrey fame Pulkit Samrat.
“@PulkitSamrat already made a donation!! Not dumping water :-( waste of resources!”, she had tweeted.
Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson has also refused as she said she can’t support an organisation that does testing on animals.
